Entrepreneurship : Rafe’s Sawmill / Roslina Razali ... [et al.]

This business plan is essential as a guideline to run our business. It consists of marketing strategy, administration strategy, financial strategy and operation strategy to help us operate our business smoothly. We are involve in sawmill industry that concern with timber and rubber tree as a mainly sources, to produce feet woods. The feet woods that we produce are according their sizes based on the order from customers.

Usually, this business entered by men and non-bumis but as women and bumiputra, we takes a risk and dare to face the challenge on going this business because we believed that we have an opportunity to be a successful same as men. For us, there is no obstacle to operate this business and to achieve our goals. We estimate the cost is about RM 340000 to run this business, and then we expect the forecast sale is RM 54000. From the profit for the first month, we expect that we have a chance to increase our profit to the other months based on the demand of customers because our product have various usage such as frame, lattice, gate, furniture and so on.

In the future, we expect the industry will develop and more bumis entered into this industry. We hope that we will be the first successful women that involve in this
business.